Tag Archives: supply chain uncertainty

The causes of logistics uncertainty

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Revised on: 2015-09-09

Logistics uncertainty – a new research strand in supply chain risk research? So it would seem, as this is the fourth time I’ve come across the authors of today’s article. In their most recent article  Evaluating the causes of uncertainty on logistics operations, just out, Vasco Sanchez-Rodrigues, Andrew Potter and Mohamed M. Naim further explore their transport uncertainty triad model which they started on some years ago, and whose articles have been mentioned on this blog in previous posts. It is only recently, though, that I have become aware of their research that links up perfectly with my own research in supply chain disruptions in sparse transportation networks, and it most definitely is a research that I intend to follow closely.

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Shrink Shrank Shrunk

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Revised on: 2015-09-12

A missed classic? Perhaps, because after reading this article I realized that this in many ways is a seminal paper. Rachel Mason-Jones and Dennis Towill are not unknown to me, and I’ve come across their names time and again, but this is probably the first time I delved more deeply into their research and their journal articles. Their 1998 paper Shrinking the Uncertainty Circle is one of the articles – if not the article – that paved the way for many frameworks for risks in supply chains, most notably the supply-demand-process-control model found among Martin Christopher and his followers.

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Transportation – the forgotten staple

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Revised on: 2015-10-03

What a difference a title makes. I only found this article because it was referenced in another article.  Why? Because it  never occurred to me to search for articles on “risk” using “uncertainty” as a keyword. Bummer. Risk is undeniably linked to uncertainty, but I have never made that mental connection and never searched for articles on  “supply chain risk” using the term “supply chain uncertainty”. Perhaps I should have, because Establishing a transport operation focused uncertainty model for the supply chain illustrates very well how transportation is a staple ingredient in supply chains and how uncertainty is a staple ingredient in risk assessments, and consequently,  transportation uncertainty is a staple ingredient in supply chain risks.

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Risk and Uncertainty in Supply Chain Management

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Revised on: 2015-09-26

I’ve searched and scoured numerous academic journals in order to find literature I can use for this blog. Sometimes my readers help me and suggest articles I am not yet aware of, and sometimes I stumble upon them myself, accidentally. Today I stumbled upon a 2004 working paper from the Copenhagen Business School (CBS): How risk and uncertainty is used in Supply Chain Management: a literature study of 136 articles since 1970 by Lars Bøge Sørensen, who finished his PhD at CBS in 2005, and who is now a Director of Operational Excellence at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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